Babies born to illegal immigrants should not be made American citizens, Rep. Gary Miller said on Fox News Thursday morning.
Miller, R-Diamond Bar, is one of 90 c0-sponsors on a bill introduced last year that would interpret the 14th amendment in a way that would allow Congress to prevent children to become citizens at birth if both of their parents were undocumented, unless one of them was serving in the U.S. military.
The bill was introduced last May by Georgia Republican Nathan Deal who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year. Miller’s staff said he will carry the legislation from now on. All five Orange County Republicans are among the 90 co-sponsors on the measure.
The bill has not had a hearing in the immigration subcommittee and has no chance of moving while Democrats control the House. Even when Republicans were in charge and similar measures were introduced they never went anywhere.
Miller was responding to questions from Fox’s Bill Hemmer about the practice of people coming to the U.S. just to have babies and the hotels that Hemmer said offer tourism packages to help women accomplish this.
Miller said many of these women have the babies, take them back to their home countries but then those children can come back to the U.S. as citizens and go to school here and later be able to bring family members here legally.
“It’s wrong,’’ Miller said, and that despite what critics say that such a law would be unconstitutional he believes that the 14th amendment “gives Congress the right to delegate how the amendment is applied.’’
[Posted by Brenda Diaz]
http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2010/04/15/miller-talks-birthright-citizenship-on-fox/33797/
